Principles of Winds and Acoustics of Strings
Richard Colwell, Michael Hewitt · 2015
Each wind instrument has its unique characteristics, including fingerings, inherent intona-tion problems, and timbre. The wind instruments also have common characteristics. As their collective name indicates, each instrument’s “tone generator” is dependent on air, affecting tone quality and intonation. This chapter is devoted to common characteristics of wind instruments, primarily addressing similar and dissimilar factors of the woodwind family and, to a lesser extent, similar factors of the brass family, which are covered more thoroughly in Chapter 16. The acoustic principles for strings are also examined.